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Council Pensions: the £53 billion black hole

Council Pensions: the £53 billion black hole

The Taxpayers' Alliance

4 Mar 2010

United Kingdom

Surpluses and Deficits, Pension Reform

A new report from the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) has revealed the full extent of the black hole in council pensions and warns of the severe costs which will be incurred if the Local Government Pension Scheme continues unreformed.

More details are generally available exclusively to subscribers of Perspective, the electronic pensions legal & regulatory information and news service. To read the summary, subscribers should launch Perspective and navigate via the Table of Documents to PensionSurveys >> Mar 2010 or click here (this link will not work in all circumstances). For further information about Perspectiveclick here.

With millions worried about the value of their pensions in the financial crisis, the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) has published a detailed report investigating the harm done to private pensions by Government tax grabs, the falling value of the basic state pension and the massive benefits enjoyed by thousands of public sector workers. The pension divide between the public and private sectors is growing, as private sector workers lose out and record numbers of their public sector peers now receive pension benefits worth millions of pounds.

More details are generally available exclusively to subscribers of Perspective, the electronic pensions legal & regulatory information and news service. To read the summary, subscribers should launch Perspective and navigate via the Table of Documents to PensionSurveys >> Nov 2008 or click here (this link will not work in all circumstances). For further information about Perspectiveclick here.

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The scale of Whitehall pensions...

The scale of Whitehall pensions...

The Taxpayers' Alliance

27 Nov 2006

United Kingdom

Pension Increases, Occupations/Industry Sectors

After surveying the annual accounts of 14 major Whitehall departments, the Taxpayers' Alliance has presented a list of 100 senior civil servants with pension pots of over £500,000. There are 4 senior civil servants with pension pots of over £2 million and 10 senior civil servants with pension pots of over £1.5 million. The averagepension pot of these 100 senior civil servants is £963,500, which means thatthe total bill for the pensions listed is almost £100 million.

More details are generally available exclusively to subscribers of Perspective, the electronic pensions legal & regulatory information and news service. To read the summary, subscribers should launch Perspective and navigate via the Table of Documents to PensionSurveys >> Nov 2006 or click here (this link will not work in all circumstances). For further information about Perspectiveclick here.